April 19 / Friday / 1 PM / 4041 HSSB: MICHAEL ZAKIM, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, offers a paper entitled “Paperwork,” a social and cultural exploration of antebellum clerkship and the relationship of that species of “nonproductive labor” to the emergence of modern American capitalism. Professor Zakim is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic (2003); and editor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012). His paper can be found here.

April 26 / Friday / 1 PM / 4041 HSSB: EMANUEL SACCARELLI, Associate Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University discusses his paper, “The Intellectual as Agent: Politics and Independence in the Lives of Ignazio Silone.” Professor Saccarelli offers insights on Silone’s role as a secret collaborator with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Saccarelli is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism (2008). His paper can be found here.

May 10 / Friday / 1 PM / 4041 HSSB: CINDY HAHAMOVITCH, Professor of History at William and Mary speaks on “The Widening Gyre: Colonial Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire.” Professor Hahamovitch is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (1997).  Her  No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (2012) won the Rawley and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians as well as the Philip Taft Labor History Prize. Her paper can be found here.